Job Description
Software Engineer II - Front End Engineer - Hyderabad – Hybrid
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
For more information, please visit www.wbd.com
Meet Our Team:
The Data & Analytics organization is at the forefront of developing and maintaining frameworks, tools, and data products vital to WBD, including flagship streaming product Max and non streaming products such as Films Group, Sports, News and overall WBD ecosystem .
Our mission is to foster unified analytics and drive data driven use cases by leveraging a robust multitenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze subscriber growth, amplify engagement, and execute timely , informed decisions, ensuring our continued success in an ever-evolving digital landscape. This team will support studios, sports, news and corporate as well.
Roles & Responsibilities:
The Software Engineer II to join our mission. We focus on all aspects of streaming video: live and VOD pipelines, metadata transformation, ad tech, server-side ad insertion, CDN integrations, playback services, video player backends, and AI/ML-based personalization. The ideal candidate has a track record
of having planned and executed all aspects of quality assurance across multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team.
You show good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative partner that makes other team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to others.
• The ideal candidate has a track record
of creating the identity for a team and defining how that team works within a larger organization.
• You have mastered the ability to delegate both tasks, and larger assignments to your team, and ensure that the right results are achieved even without your constant oversight.
• Become a key part of an exciting, collaborative, cross-functional team.
• Prototype and build Ad Tech products for the Web, Hybrid Web App, and Set Top Box platforms that enable our content creators and other teams to create new experiences for our fans in millions of households.
• Work with engineering leadership to figure out technical challenges and make architecture decisions.
• Work closely with your peers across engineering, product, design, editorial, marketing and operations to create products that people love to come to work and use.
• Work in rapid iterations, always looking to deliver the best possible version of a product.
• Develop and ship fast, tested, resilient, high-quality code that others find easy to comprehend and modify while planning for the long term health of the codebase and all its touch points. This also includes proper code coverage through unit tests and technical documentation and code commenting.
• Troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace etc to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it.
• Keep abreast of new technologies and best practices and know how to evaluate the tradeoffs of implementing new things.
• Ability to break big problems or features into small components and solve them.
• Demonstrated good software ownership practices in all of your contributions and where your code reviews are uneventful, you prepare documentation proactively, and you ensure proper monitoring for operational excellence in production
What to Bring:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field from an accredited college or university, or commensurate experience.
• 3 - 5 years of experience developing business logic for JavaScript/TypeScript based applications.
• Experience with React J s and NextJS
• Experience writing contracts and technical approach documentation that has been subject to peer review and socialized across multiple teams.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and platforms.
• Knowledge of large-scale application architecture, design, implementation, and performance tuning.
• Be intellectually curious and look for opportunities to expand your technical and personal skill set.
• Empathy for users and teammates, and care as much about how the systems you create impact your users and fellow engineers as you do about the code itself.
• Excited to work in a highly collaborative environment.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and can help others learn what you have learned. Can adapt communication style for different audiences.
What We Offer:
• A Great Place to work.
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rnq45m-3-239-3-196-42 in your application.